CORLEONE, Italy, April 14, 2006 — -- Deep in the hills outside Palermo, Italy, is a medieval farm town with a history written in blood. The town's name -- Corleone -- literally means "Lionheart." ...

ROME (Reuters) -Italian anti-Mafia author Roberto Saviano wept in court on Monday as judges upheld a conviction against a notorious mob boss who was found to have threatened him. Francesco Bidognetti, ...

Longtime gangster Ralph DeLeo, once the purported "street boss" of the Colombo crime family, plotted to "murder no fewer than three people who played roles in his most recent criminal conviction," ...

Uruguay's prisons chief resigned Tuesday in the wake of a sensational jailbreak by Italian mob boss Rocco Morabito that angered Rome, which was awaiting his extradition. The interior ministry said it ...

Next month, the doors of an Italian mob boss’s former home will open to the public, thanks in part to the Uffizi Gallery. Egidio “Brutus” Coppola had funneled part of his fortune as head of the ...

ROME (Reuters) - Italian mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano, one of the most notorious crime figures of his time, has died in a Milan hospital at the age of 83, prison authorities said on Wednesday.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Singer Daniele De Martino, from Sicily, has condemned ‘pentiti’ or turncoats in his lyrics - mafia gangsters who decide to ...

An immigration tribunal heard this week that accused Mafia bosses in Italy were caught on covert police recordings praising DeMaria, saying they “consider him a person worthy of respect,” and he ...

Uruguay's prisons chief resigned Tuesday in the wake of a sensational jailbreak by Italian mob boss Rocco Morabito that angered Rome, which was awaiting his extradition. View of Montevideo's Central ...